I’ve seen alot of chat about this recently, 10-15 years max. But if you have 25-30 years of very relevant work experience for a role why wouldn’t you highlight that? I assume its to stop people guessing your age? But they will get a gist of that in the interview process. TBH I’m a bit confused. Any thoughts greatly appreciated. Nice weekend
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I’m similar. I don’t agree about not including older jobs and experience, because if you’re an older worker you may have done things in the past that are still relevant and employers may like to see where you’ve come from. Frontload your most recent/relevant experience at the top of the first page and then everything else in descending order. It should also be chronological. Don’t clutter it with trivial or temporary work. Anyone reviewing can decide how far they want to go back. My CV has 3 pages, although some say it shouldn’t be more than two.
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I have been told one page strictly, over and over again, despite having too much experience to squeeze into one page.
This sounds really sad. If you have the experience that should also be shown! I am not in that position yet, but I also recall everyone telling you that the CV should be best a 1 pager and that is also how I keep it by keeping the older positions really short in description and rather refer to my LinkedIn profile, which I maintain as a sort of living and more detailed CV, maybe that’s an option? Because if they got interested they can check there, so it will not be unnoticed 
I kind of have to agree as there is so much age discrimination - I have had to take out age I graduated Uni!
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Keeping your Linkedin profile updated is a must. Appreciate your reply 
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I totally agree with all the above comments.not sure why age or experience should be a constraint and if this trend continues at some point in time un official retirement age would be 40.
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Ageism is very very real.
You should probably remove all dates out of education sections and only mention your latest employer (if at least five years) or last XYZ employers (until the cumulative time is at least five years).
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Your LinkedIn should be your lifetime CV. The CV itself these days should be more like a greatest hits album. If you’ve got 30 years of relevant experience, it should be easy to cherry pick specific roles and projects to prove you’re a good fit and entice recruiters to have a look at your full work history
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You can expand on the last 10 years to provide relevant details and keep the older ones as only a single line, thus still showing you have more experience beyond the past 10 years
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but five years will not be enough to land you a senior job… how would that work?
Five years of experience, no.
But if your “five years of experience” is as “director, benelux head of xyz” then they’ll probably realise you’re not mentioning the irrelevant things
I’m starting to struggle to stay within the 2 pages I always had. I always thought 2 pages is the sweet spot but I see anecdata here that 1 page has a string push too. I’d like to know what others have heard/experienced about this aspect.
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I’m not sure 1 page or 2 is that relevant anymore since the first time your cv is reviewed is usually by AI software and that is what gets you to the next stage so pages don’t matter. I know this isn’t always the case, so don’t be afraid to prove me wrong on this one.
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I am finding that no one in the process appears to have read my resume beyond the first line of each prior role on the first page, unless/until I talk to the hiring manager, who often seems to have read it thoroughly. This is invariant over 1, 2, 3 page versions of the resume.
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I’m sure my CV goes straight into the deleted folder I just don’t seem to be getting anywhere recently.
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Keep throwing cv out!
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Actually I had tried 2, 3, 4 pages CV, reality showed that each company/boss is looking for different elements from the CV. So number of pages isn’t a big issue……so long as the company/boss needs you, then that’s bingo!
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